On Mit, 2002-01-30 at 14:01, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > PowerMac 9600 > video card IMS Twin Turbo (IMS,tt128mb8A) > booted with BootX > kernel 2.4.18-pre7-ben0 with CONFIG_FB_IMSTT=y > booted with BootX > > 1) when giving extra kernel argument video=imsttfb > with or without "force video setting" > the machine boots fine, but after the few first kernels messages > the screen goes black.... I don't see any kernel boot messages, I have > to type blinkly.. or ssh the machine in order to reboot
Anything from imsttfb in the kernel output? Maybe you have to tell it the mode to use? > I have to boot with video=ofonly in order to get the console screen. > > 2) setting XF86Config-4 to use > Driver "imstt" > VideoRam 8192 # the 9600/350 comes with 8Mb on card > > and startx gives me something like uper half screen with a kind of > display the other (lower half) black. > furthermore, the upper half part is cutted in 2 parts (left rigth) > something like that > > > +---------+---------+ > | | | > useable quarter | | | like mirrored of the "useable > | | | quarter" > +---------+---------+ > | | > | Black | > | | > +---------+---------+ Is this the same for all depths? > furthermore /var/log/XFree86.log tells me the following > (--) imstt(0): probed videoram = 3072k It would be interesting to know what imsttfb thinks about this. :) I don't know the status of the imstt driver on powerpc; it could be plain broken. You could also try the fbdev driver. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
